Music, Travel, and Wired Magazine

[filkertom]

Fort Stockton, TX. Small bastion of civilization. Room, food, bed.

The house/venue sing in Houston last night was intimate and pleasant. Very nice to physically meet bald_ruminant (he says I met him at Dragon*Con, but I can't remember doing so, which doesn't mean I didn't) and shockwave77598 and faxpaladin and several other great folks. Many thanks to Mike, the owner of the venue, and starcat_jewel, who put me up in the La Quinta (a story in and of itself).

Tomorrow night: Mom's.

Oh, and: March issue of Wired. Page 96. :)

Comments

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

drat you. now i have to wait till i go in to work friday to look for the magazine, since i'm off tomorrow. i must write myself a note.
glad to know everything's going well with the tour. :-D

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

You're close to where I grew up -- Marfa. It's only around 90 miles from where you are, which in West Texas terms is practically there already.

Oh, and if you flip through the phone book, which I did staying at the hotel there on a trip home (I turned out to be tired enough that 90 miles was too much), you learn that there's a bookstore in Alpine called Rainbow's End (not there when I was growing up). I did wonder whether they knew about the song...

Once again, loved the concert.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

It was a pleasure hearing you sing in person, at last. Thank you for a very enjoyable evening away from my usual stress and strife.

Hope you enjoyed our Texas Fog. :)

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

You did meet me at Dragon*Con. Really. I can produce witnesses. Reliable ones, even. I swear.

Great meeting you, again. Good show. Thank you for a great ending for a very unusual day.

Houston to Ft. Stockton is not a bad day's drive, but I prefer to stop in Van Horn, which is a little further along, or push clear on to Deming, NM for the first day's run so I can get El Paso far behind me.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Not a lot of fog today, actually, but what there was yesterday was very pretty. I like fog. Today was open spaces and scrub and empty roads. Great.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Only reason I didn't keep going was that, after 150 miles of nothin', I didn't want to chance getting exhausted and not finding a hotel (or only finding a hotel that Norman Bates would feel comfortable in...).

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Much grass. It was fun.

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

Gotcha. Safe driving habits beat getting more miles in, of course.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I'm unlikely to see the paper magazine at all, so if whatever story he's on about is on the web site, perhaps he'll let us know...

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

I can't be the only one who read this and immediately got a Jan Brady whine going through my head...

-=ShoEboX=-
(Oh, you'll figure it out.)

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

YAY! You're in TEXAS! Did you see my friend Ramsey? He lives in Texas, so you must have bumped into him.

Your name is Tom Smith and you sing goofy-ass songs about robots and shit. That should totally be your bio. I need more coffee now.

-=ShoEboX=-

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Belated Happy Birthday, by the way, O Nipplous One.

[jss]

You weren't the only one.

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does get pretty sparse out there. Van Horn would have been the next place with substantial accommodations, and that's another 100 miles.

It tells you something when, coming out of El Paso (going the other direction), you see the mileage sign that has the next town of any size on the first line and the next major city on the second... and the next major city is San Antonio, 500 miles and change away...

My Wired sub starts with the April issue

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

What's on page 96? I am quite, quite curious now :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

What really got me was the McDonald's sign that said "Just Ahead -- 60 Miles".

Re: My Wired sub starts with the April issue

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

An article on filk, taken from interviews at OVFF 2005. Frank Hayes, Juanita... and me. :)

Re: My Wired sub starts with the April issue

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

Well, looks like I'm self-starting my subscription a little early :), and one more thing on the (neverending)list to get when I go to the bookstore for the MidSouthCon programming committee meeting tonight :) :)

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

...and then there's the one near the border with LA that says "Beaumont 23, El Paso 857"--as if Houston weren't along the way.